28th April 2010, 11:21 PM
If we want archaeology to take up its role as a member of a community to build in a sense of belonging and community identity, then we must really address this issue on a personal level.
At the IFA conference, a session brought to the fore the issue of a responsible proactive member that will be actively considering the role and use of archaeology or heritage works to be incorporated into any kind of vision that a community may have.
We must really take a sense of reality when we think of the politization of the field in an occult like manner.
This is especially the case where national issues become devolved and evolved into local communities and the issues that most address local or commutable economies.
As archaeologists we are all too often ready to move across the country to work where we must, but now we must consider the issue of engaging with commitment to local action and involvement.
we must engage and consider the implications of that involvement, but also that we must take this as an opportunity to take forward an industry with a diverse and inclusive approach to the form that an evolving and developing industry must take given the regionally different opportunities that can be made to place the countries heritage at the centre, whether the commonality be based geographically, or on hereditary connection.
But as always this will come at a price.
This price will be based upon the standing and relevance to the excellence of international studies in the area.
We must take this step and walk into a very different world, where we must consider ‘what the important issues are that need to be addressed within our studies’ and pursue those roles and affect that change, which would leave that mark beyond the classical career-ship approach to our respective fields.
This is the time, this is the place and the ground lies beneath our feet.
Now we must make our choice and take those steps into the future and the careers that we would and can make a difference to for the future of these industries.
At the IFA conference, a session brought to the fore the issue of a responsible proactive member that will be actively considering the role and use of archaeology or heritage works to be incorporated into any kind of vision that a community may have.
We must really take a sense of reality when we think of the politization of the field in an occult like manner.
This is especially the case where national issues become devolved and evolved into local communities and the issues that most address local or commutable economies.
As archaeologists we are all too often ready to move across the country to work where we must, but now we must consider the issue of engaging with commitment to local action and involvement.
we must engage and consider the implications of that involvement, but also that we must take this as an opportunity to take forward an industry with a diverse and inclusive approach to the form that an evolving and developing industry must take given the regionally different opportunities that can be made to place the countries heritage at the centre, whether the commonality be based geographically, or on hereditary connection.
But as always this will come at a price.
This price will be based upon the standing and relevance to the excellence of international studies in the area.
We must take this step and walk into a very different world, where we must consider ‘what the important issues are that need to be addressed within our studies’ and pursue those roles and affect that change, which would leave that mark beyond the classical career-ship approach to our respective fields.
This is the time, this is the place and the ground lies beneath our feet.
Now we must make our choice and take those steps into the future and the careers that we would and can make a difference to for the future of these industries.
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not again
not again